Well a slight outbreak of outlook vbs scripting had me
emailless for a couple of days while the company went into
paranoid mode, this just after two days of no web proxy. I
get back to the net and find it has lost Douglas Adams, but
my box under the desk has ticked over a year without a
power failure...

CARS Picked up new car for the wife on Fri
(AUS$20000 Nubira) she intends driving until she is bored
with it then we will swap and I'll use it for work. Sold
the Valiant on the weekend (AUS$650, still have spare motor
auto gearbox and diff if anyone wants)

WORK A little on the quiet side, will get around to
fixing all the spares up, couple of workshop jobs in.

PLAY I am rated as an observer, bit depressing, have
not figured out why I got downgraded, still thinking of
ideas as to how to implement a trustable distributed credit
rating system. Getting rid of the Valiant has made some
room in the garage so I'll do a bit of cleanup and
hopefully get some electronics projects underway again.

I seem to have been spreading myself so thin around the net
that I am loosing track of what is happening in some
places. My lack of recent diary entries here is a point
but is repeated in many other places.

Am I spending too little or too much time online?

if too little then would more time help? Or would I
just find more places to take part in?

if too much, then who will help me keep offline? I
only
trust the opinions of other netters in this regard so I
need to be online to discuss my net.addiction.

It seems that diary entries and web browsing take a serious
back seat once I get really busy.

My net time is now down to just a couple of hours a day yet
the number of emails I read now is up to almost a thousand
a day. Majority of course get trashed straight away but
the couple of percent that need attention take so much of
my remaining time :(

remind me one day to put some haiku on the net somewhere,
as an exercise in identifying my own thoughts I wrote them
down in haiku as they happened, a disturbing but
interesting process. The result was a much greater
personal understanding of my self, I think many 'socially
misfitted' people would find it beneficial.

As a result of having some feelings running around in side
my head and a developing social conciense, I urge you all
to look here I don't
care how hard you think your heart or mind is, when you
read of some of the suffering in the world, you will feel
their pain.

My musings previously about the need for a global
underground resistance in no way mean that I am involved.

Today's Quote: ""Do you remember writing in your diary that
it
did not matter whether I were a friend or an enemy, since I
was at
least a person who understood you and could be talked to?
You were
right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It
resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane."
~ ~ O'Brien to Winston, George Orwell's "Nineteen Eighty-
Four."

I felt that that would be an interesting diary entry of
discussion of a quote of a diary entry from someone whos
mind I could
relate to. Of course now I am discussing in a diary the
quotation of a discussion of a diary quotation and my
insanity feels complete...